On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:00:05AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> Here at work in a Sun Solaris environment I have found the HP lpd
> support to be flakey - the thing works absolutely fine for ages and
> then just stops accepting jobs.  I don't know if this is an artifact
> of the Solaris SYSV crap print system* or the lpd implementation on
> the HP.  Just something to watch for.

I had the same problem from regular BSD boxes. HP's lpd will be looked up
while it's printing (lpq will hang) and jobs will eventually be lost when
several of them come in at once.
With a NetBSD machine as lpd<->ethertalk bridge all is fine.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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